Quotes from Mike Budenholzer

You never want to put yourself in a position where you can bring negativity to yourself or the organization and your teammates.

Respect for your teammates is important to us.

The really great players, I think embrace playing unselfishly and embrace playing in a system that ultimately kind of lifts up their teammates or their role players and guys who are around them.

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

If you are just focused on the end result, you are probably going to have a frustrating year. But if you embrace on what you go through every day and how you work every day, there's a lot that can be taken from that.

We always say the wine tastes a little better after a win.

Not winning and those types of things are difficult. There is no doubt. You can't say they are not.

My father, he's meant so much to me. He's always on me to be thankful and humble to everyone who's helped me and helped the team be successful. There were many things that he said and preached throughout my life that are now part of my mindset. It's a big part of who I am.

Those teams that really trust each other, really communicate with each other, really hold each other accountable and do it in a good way, in a respectful way, and just genuinely enjoy and like each other, I think that can be something that helps you separate when talent is equal.

The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there - the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.

Each of us can play a role in eradicating hunger in our communities, and together with Feeding Wisconsin we look forward to raising awareness and having a positive impact on the work to help this important cause.

Things happen. Things change. It's part of life.

I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.

Giannis is such a great player.

It's just hard in our league to see somebody who has had that much sucess, that's done that well, that's that well-respected, not just among coaches but the whole basketball world has great respect for David Blatt. That's hard anytime you see a coach go when they make a change.

That's the great thing for coaches... we'll find more things where we can get better.

One of the great things about working for Pop, not just me but everybody, is he wants you to give your opinions. He almost wants you to disagree with him. It's part of the whole process.

There are so many pick and rolls in an NBA game. It's so hard to guard.

Guarding and defending is not easy.

Point guards love it when a guy can pick and pop and make a shot and make threes.

The only social rule you recognized in high school was that Mormon girls don't date non-Mormons.

My dream was to be an assistant college coach, maybe a head coach, maybe at a Division III school.

I can tell you, those video guys are truly trained to see the spacing, the timing, how offenses progress, what are teams doing defensively.

There's an attention to detail that you learn in the video room that, I don't want to say you can't get anywhere else, but it's a huge part of their foundation.